A Cultural History of Plants in the Post-Classical Era

Author Biography

Alain Touwaide is a specialist of the history of botany, medicine, and medicinal plants in the MediterraneanWorld from Antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond. He is particularly interested in the exchanges of plants, practices, and knowledge between the different populations around the Mediterranean, and has abundantly published on this topic, with a particular focus on Greece and Byzantium. Trained as a philologist, he interprets historical texts at the light of ethnobotany/ethnopharmacology.